Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. You’re investing resources in hiring and training the right people, tracking different metrics at different stages, adding more and more complexity with each increase in headcount, use cases, and customers. For Natasha, the answer is a resounding yes.

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Scale Outsourcing Services Software Sales Hiring 206

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

One of the biggest challenges businesses face when they grow is scaling effective , autonomous and quick decision-making. In short, they make it easy to see what each team, department and organisation is working on, omitting and their respective goals. Again, it was an easy to use model which scaled effective decision-making.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! When you get that thing where you’re a rational person and you think it will be great and 99 out of 100 people think it’s bad, that’s when you have opportunity. I was a software developer, a product person. Get tickets here.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Headcount 337

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 12, 2020

Scaling Your Personalization. AI can help scale this, but we need to be careful not to rely too heavily on it. To scale your outreach you need to build a system to ensure your message gets seen. The system you set up becomes even more important once you begin doing outreach at scale, but I’ll go over that more later.

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Scale Scaling AI Search AI 107

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

As the head of our Support Ops team, I work daily with my teammates to develop automated solutions that don’t frustrate customers, but empower them. They can also route customer conversations to the team best equipped to handle their questions and can even provide answers to simple customer questions like, “How can I add more users?”.

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Support AI Headcount 279

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

And yet, downplaying your team’s needs undermines CS’s current impact and future revenue-driving potential. According to our 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study, CS teams are already underfunded and under-resourced. This is something that I’m doing with fractional headcount allocation. Now we have a name for this.

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Customer Success Sales Hiring Headcount Scale 98

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. Building a great sales team: How Intercom fosters and maintains its sales culture. Scaling in the midst of a global pandemic.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 223

Chart Mogul

JULY 15, 2021

As teams grow, it gets harder to rally around key goals. We both noticed a similar pattern: alignment on key metrics breaks as headcount grows: More teams means more silos in processes and tools used to follow metrics. As you grow, complexity will increase and new departments, teams, initiatives will require focus on new goals.

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Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Scale Communication 52

Chart Mogul

JULY 15, 2021

As teams grow, it gets harder to rally around key goals. We both noticed a similar pattern: alignment on key metrics breaks as headcount grows: More teams means more silos in processes and tools used to follow metrics. As you grow, complexity will increase and new departments, teams, initiatives will require focus on new goals.

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Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Scale Communication 52

Sales Hacker

MAY 21, 2020

It’s easy, it scales well, but by definition it puts a lot of the process out of your hands. There isn’t a continual feedback loop between teams. They may or may not have developed a follow-up schedule but are not continually testing. When inbound sales and marketing works, it’s great. Start with a Sales & Marketing SLA.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Headcount Technology 132

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Pipeline analytics: Offers sales managers a view of their teams’ pipelines that goes beyond what’s available in their native SFA applications. I am super unimpressed with the current Go-to-market tech stack options…If I found the right team to start a company to take out all of them I would. A couple of big challenges & trends.

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AI Revenue Scale ChatGPT 78

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2021

I saw this as a client partner and then regional managing director at an eBusiness firm that scaled from 0 to 2,000 people in three years, organically. The same was true when I ran the People function at a software development consultancy that doubled its headcount to ~100 while reducing attrition from 40% to 5% voluntary in 18 months.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Headcount Software Review 84

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 12, 2022

Take Stack Overflow , the world’s largest software developer network, community, and platform, serving close to 100 million monthly visitors. In fact, the team intentionally takes a non-dualistic approach that relies more on empathy, flexibility, and context than on the concept of right versus wrong. .

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Leadership SMB Underperforming Technical Team Scale 76

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. What “customer success” looks like evolves as your company and customers scale upmarket.

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Scale Customer Success Strategy Sales Hiring 177

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. That means your focus should be on building the right customer profile and developing precise messaging to reach them. Short on time?

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 183

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 106

Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2020

If you’re in a position to fill a sales role, you’re likely already feeling the pressure, because your revenue targets are built on the assumption that your team is fully staffed. These factors can quickly derail a sales team. Some roles don’t work if you have a bad hire. Implement career development and specialized training.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Compensation Underperforming Technical Team 76

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

And you and your team won’t waste your time working on bad opportunities. The first question sales leaders and their teams need to answer is: who is our customer? If you stay too high-level, the pain could be misinterpreted by your team and the rest of the organization. No more convincing them to buy. No spray and pray.

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Scale Sales Underperforming Technical Team Headcount 107

Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2021

As Customer Success as a discipline has grown, it has also developed an accompaniment of misconceptions and myths, generating a lot of confusion about how to do it right and scale successfully. Myth #1: You can create a powerful digital engagement model and scale your Customer Success organization without investing in Operations.

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Customer Success Scale Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Sam made his way into the world of SaaS with Dropbox and how that led to his leading the sales and success team today @ Loom. What was Sam’s biggest lesson from scaling the sales team at Dropbox? Sam Taylor: And so, I joined as a sales development rep at Salesforce, best move I ever made.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 184

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

That’s because very few contingency plans accounted for the scale and nature of the disruption we’re all experiencing. Of course, just assuming the worst is almost as bad as assuming (and acting as though) everything will be okay, and simply continuing on as normal. Spending for growth becomes a luxury that can be deferred.

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Forecasting Underperforming Technical Team Headcount Scale 40

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2019

Growing a sales team isn’t as simple as putting a bunch of A players in a room and getting them to start selling your product. If you want to build a revenue engine that will fuel long-term growth, you need to build and scale your sales org with intention. and many more to talk about how they’ve built sales teams from the ground up.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Scaling 156

BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

One exec’s greatest failure: “I was seduced by a build scenario … it turned out to be a very poor decision”. After being “seduced by a build scenario,” Holst-Knudsen says he convinced the company to move ahead with it, which turned out to be a very poor decision. But software development and IT resources are still a cost.

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VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Engineering 45

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 15, 2021

During one of our BIG RYG Hyper-Workshops on budgeting for Customer Success headcount, Kristen Hayer of The Success League, framed this shift by explaining that as a CS leader, you’re not running a happiness team, you’re running a revenue team. Your team will start to get pushed on the money side of things.

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Customer Success Benchmarks Scale Underperforming Technical Team 97

OpenView Labs

JUNE 10, 2019

For proof, might I suggest the classic post Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager , which presents a very different vision for the role of product manager than most of us have today). They know the immense value of user input and customer development. Team Alignment. Table of Contents. Best Practices. Creating a PM Function.

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Management SaaS Scale Sales Recruiting 55

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 61

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team. Yes, Dropbox started off with no traditional sales team. billion in revenue) so it’s safe to say Jeanne and her team have helped do exactly that.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 162

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

In this week’s episode we’ve dug down into the podcast vaults to bring you some of the best insights shared by our guests about scaling sales. It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. John Barrows: Passion and work ethic.

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Payment Services 172

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Culture helps a company define itself, attract the right team members and customers, and differentiate in the marketplace. It’s the “why” behind the mission and the glue that holds everyone together in good times and bad. Culture is also tricky because there’s no one-size-fits-all way to define, cultivate or scale it.

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Scale Scaling Underperforming Technical Team Company Culture 98

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

Not too long ago, when Intercom turned 10 , we dedicated an entire episode to speed , or why startups should always strive to keep momentum as they scale. We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. So, naturally, we hatched a plan to hit the gas.

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Underperforming Technical Team Headcount Sales Hiring Scale 249

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have the right structure, workload, and engagement model to hit its goals? Re-segmenting your customer base is a natural evolution of your company, product, and team’s growth. All CS leaders eventually undertake this exercise to scale engagement and improve the customer experience.

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Headcount Underperforming Technical Team Scale Outsourced Development 98

SaaSOptics

MAY 2, 2022

There are several different ways to successfully launch and scale a SaaS company. In a sales-led model, sales processes and teams are the primary drivers of revenue growth. Each has its strengths and weaknesses, but neither is better or worse than the other. Here’s what it looks like in practice.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 97

Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2020

Michael talks about how he does that at scale and how he thinks about scale. The origins of Compass, how it achieved scale, and its competitive advantage [7:13]. Michael has 15 years of experience running global sales and product teams across multiple software and FinTech companies. with Andrew Sykes. We’re on iTunes.

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Scale Scaling VP of Engineering Technical Review 113

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

As for Karl, prior to founding the company he spent 6 years at Google in some fascinating roles including Head of Patents, Head of Business Development in China and running Google’s energy investments. How does this requirement change as the company scales? How does Karl think about doing this at scale?

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Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire CTO Coach 222

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 19, 2022

Here are a few key takeaways: An Internal Quality Score offers a more holistic view of an agent’s strengths and opportunities for growth and helps organizations gain insight into their teams’ work. To maintain quality as you scale, don’t compromise your bars on hiring – even if you’re doing it under pressure.

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Benchmarks Sales Hiring Scale Strategy 104

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If you don’t want to manage all of the infrastructure around Iceberg (plus allocating headcount to do this!) One key component of a modern cloud-native data architecture is the data lake - which allows for cost-efficient storage of large amounts of data used for analytics and ML at scale.

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Data Government Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. I stumbled upon Eric Ries and Steve Blank, the concept of customer development – it was a revelation.

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Growth Marketing Scale Marketing Outsourcing Services 174